diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/bitbucket-api/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/bitbucket-api/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..86ce1262f6c7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/bitbucket-api/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+{ stdenv, buildPythonPackage, fetchPypi, isPy3k
+, requests_oauthlib, nose, sh }:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "bitbucket-api";
+  version = "0.4.4";
+  disabled = isPy3k;
+
+  src = fetchPypi {
+    inherit pname version;
+    sha256 = "1cl5xa55ijjd23xs8znsd4w4vb3q1vkbmchy7hh6z6nmjcwbr478";
+  };
+
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ requests_oauthlib nose sh ];
+
+  doCheck = false;
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    homepage = https://github.com/Sheeprider/BitBucket-api;
+    description = "Python library to interact with BitBucket REST API";
+    license = licenses.mit;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 335c7c9e1994..15375faa1505 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -1240,26 +1240,7 @@ in {
 
   binaryornot = callPackage ../development/python-modules/binaryornot { };
 
-  bitbucket_api = buildPythonPackage rec {
-    name = "bitbucket-api-0.4.4";
-    # python3 does not support relative imports
-    disabled = isPy3k;
-
-    src = pkgs.fetchurl {
-      url = "mirror://pypi/b/bitbucket-api/${name}.tar.gz";
-      sha256 = "e890bc3893d59a6f203c1eb2bae60e78ac4d3869da7ea4fb104dca588aea85b2";
-    };
-
-    propagatedBuildInputs = with self; [ requests_oauthlib nose sh ];
-
-    doCheck = false;
-
-    meta = {
-      homepage = https://github.com/Sheeprider/BitBucket-api;
-      description = "Python library to interact with BitBucket REST API";
-      license = licenses.mit;
-    };
-  };
+  bitbucket_api = callPackage ../development/python-modules/bitbucket-api { };
 
   # Should be moved out of python-packages.nix
   bitbucket-cli = buildPythonPackage rec {